Question: if you could choose to be any animal in the world what would it be? and why would you be it and would you survive with your adaptions?

Asked by kaseyt22 to Blaire, Elizabeth, Jenny, Shona, Simon on 12 Mar 2013.

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  1. Photo: Blaire DobieckiBlaire Dobiecki
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    It may sound silly, but I think I would always want to be a human animal. I enjoy thinking about complex things and I wouldn’t be able to do this as another animal. It is an interesting question of how much other animals can ‘think’ or ponder. It is what scientists call ‘theory of mind’ and as far as we can tell, we are the most complex thinking animals. This also seems to be our best survival adaptation!

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  2. Photo: Elizabeth StarkElizabeth Stark
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I don’t know if I’d like to be one forever, but it would be really interesting to be an octopus. They have three hearts. Although they have a brain, they have nuerons ( brain cells) throughout their bodies and tenticles. It would be interesting to try that out for a day or two (not forever though)

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  3. Photo: Shona MarksShona Marks
    answered on 12 Mar 2013:

    I would like to be an albatrosses.

    They are so large. I would love to be able to fly and to travel around the world.

    I hope my adaptations would help me survive, large beak to catch food, ability to transverse the globe using the magnetic field and find my way home. Large wings and ability to understand wind and thermal currents so I don’t ever have to land.

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  4. Photo: Jennifer L. A. ShawJennifer L. A. Shaw
    answered on 18 Mar 2013:

    I would like to be a whale in a whale pod because I like being under the sea, its the best feeling. Also I wouldn’t get lonely because they travel in groups and they don’t have many predators so all I would have to stay away from is fishing boats!

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